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Anti-Virus Protection

Computer viruses can affect businesses and organizations in many ways. Research says that 74% of companies are attacked each month by at least one virus. A survey in 2006 said that Americans lost $8 billion due to computer viruses, spyware and phishing scams in the previous two years to the survey.

What Computer Viruses can Do

Computer viruses can:

slow down your computer thus impeding work

corrupt filesystesms and files thus losing work

cause programmes to run in a faulty manner

damage a boot sector of a computer and prevent it from booting

steal information from your computer

wipe a hard disk drive clean

encrypt a computer's hard drive

What Cost Computer Viruses Can Have

The impact on businesses is :

loss of work time for employees who cannot access their computer

loss of worktime during the downtime it takes to clean up the computer virus and for the expertise necessary to clean up the virus

loss of data could result in high costs to recover destroyed data especially if there are no backups

So, it's better to be proactive than reactive and wait until a virus has done its damage. Contact us now for help with virus protection.